You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Individual Artist, Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers
| Author: | Rachel Corbett | ISBN: | 9780393245066 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company | Publication: | September 6, 2016 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rachel Corbett |
| ISBN: | 9780393245066 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication: | September 6, 2016 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Language: | English |
Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize
In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century Paris, Rachel Corbett’s You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin and their circle, revealing how deeply Rodin’s ideas about art and creativity influenced Rilke’s classic Letters to a Young Poet.
Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize
In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century Paris, Rachel Corbett’s You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin and their circle, revealing how deeply Rodin’s ideas about art and creativity influenced Rilke’s classic Letters to a Young Poet.
